Formed in 2012, the group's current lineup also features drummer
T-Bone K. Bronco, bassist Keith Roberts and Bobby Bronco. They're in the midst
of a busy, two-week tour, with at least 11 stops in cities including Charlotte,
Charleston, Atlanta and Nashville.

"This is the first long stint we've had, that isn't a
weekend," Samuel says.

When called for this phone interview, Samuel is at a friend's
house in Durham, N.C. I asked him to tell me the stories behind each of the
seven songs on ""Depressing Songs for the Depressed."

"Kentucky Girl"

"A lot of my songs came from breakups with girls," Samuel
says. "And there's a guy out of Kansas named Tyler Gregory, and he had a song
about Kansas girls and it made me want to write a song about the state I'm
from. I had just broken up with a girl and she was a little nuts."

"If I'd Done Right"

"I'd been trying to figure out a new lyric writing system,
and I just kind of wanted to write a song that was about my own troubles
getting over myself. I was just figuring out who I'd be and where I'd been."

"Four Shots"

"We call that a murder-suicide ballad instead of murder
ballad. It kind of came together from the chorus. We were like, 'Hey let's call
it "Four Shots" where two of the shots are bullets and two are shots of
whiskey."

"Drink Till She Calls"

"I had a friend and we were drinking at a bar. He was
fighting with his girlfriend and I was trying to get him to hang out and he
says, 'It's a "drink till she calls" kind of night.' And I said, 'I'm going to
write a song about that."

"Shotguns and Shells"

"That was a song about coming off of a really, really s----y
tour, having no money and being hungry and trying to think if you were doing it
for the right reasons or not."

"Paul Revere" (Beastie Boys cover)

"It kind of worked out like one of those old, country
story-songs."

"Drunks Walk The
Docks"

"I wrote that on a boat in Alaska. I used to be a fisherman
and that was after being on the water for about two months and the sun doesn't
go down and you want to sleep but you can't. At the end of it, everyone was
waiting to get paid and we were all sitting around and that song kind of came
together there."